reverse marked "Rudolf Wächtler & Lange" (pocket showing age and use)
presumably because no picture of Hauser in uniform with the award exists as he received it so close to the end of the war
where he died of natural causes at 12:45 hours on January 25
tab is edged with silvery twisted wire
Antifaev was declared "Missing" and later "Presumed Dead"
Germany, Third Reich. A 1944 Tirol Small Calibre Shooting Badge By Carl Poellath Auction reverse marked "Rudolf Wächtler &(Schtzenabzeichen). Constructed of zink, horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of a red Tirol style eagle clutching a target overlaid by a swastika, flanked by a date of 1944, above an inscription of KK GEWEHR for KLEINKALIBER GEWEHR (SMALL CALIBRE RIFLE), the reverse maker marked CARL POELLATH, SCHROBENHAUSEN, measuring 40. 21 mm in diameter, in better than very fine condition.